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LGBTQ Literature In Mexico
LGBT literature in Mexico began to flourish beginning in the 1960s, but came into its own in the 1980s. However, until then, homosexuality had rarely been addressed in literary works, except as something ridiculous, condemnable, or perverted, thanks to the homophobia that dominates Mexican society. In 1975, the activist and theater director Nancy Cárdenas and the writers Carlos Monsiváis and Luis González de Alba published the first manifesto in defense of homosexuals, published in the magazine and, in 1979, they organized the first gay pride march. Although some notable novels preceded it (like the 1964 , "The Diary of José Toledo," by Miguel Barbachano Ponce), the novel that marked a true change in direction regarding the scorn and silence around homosexuality was El vampiro de la colonia Roma by Luis Zapata Quiroz, published in 1978. After its publication, many authors had the courage to follow this path and take on the subject of homosexuality without reservations.L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luis Zapata
Luis Zapata may refer to: * Luis Zapata (writer) (born 1951), a Mexican writer * Luis Ramírez Zapata (born 1954), a Salvadoran retired association football (soccer) * Luis Eduardo Zapata (born 1980), a Colombian association football (soccer) player {{hndis, Zapata, Luis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
José Joaquín Fernández De Lizardi
José Joaquín Eugenio Fernández de Lizardi Gutiérrez (November 15, 1776 – June 21, 1827) was a Mexican writer and political journalist. He is best known as the author of '' El Periquillo Sarniento'' (1816), translated into English as ''The Mangy Parrot'', reputed to be the first novel written in Latin America. Life Lizardi, as he is generally known, was born in Mexico City when it was still the capital of the colonial Spanish viceroyalty of New Spain. His father, Manuel Fernández Lizalde, practiced as a physician in and around Mexico City, and who for a time supplemented the family income by writing. Likewise, his mother, Bárbara Gutiérrez, came from a family of modest but "decent" means; her own father had been a bookseller in the city of Puebla. The death of Lizardi's father after a short illness in 1798 forced him to leave his studies at the Colegio de San Ildefonso and enter the civil service as a minor magistrate in the Taxco-Acapulco region. He married María Dolo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Federico García Lorca
Federico del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús García Lorca (5 June 1898 – 19 August 1936) was a Spanish poet, playwright, and theatre director. García Lorca achieved international recognition as an emblematic member of the Generation of '27, a group consisting mostly of poets who introduced the tenets of European movements (such as symbolism (arts), symbolism, futurism, and surrealism) into Spanish literature. He initially rose to fame with ''Romancero gitano'' (''Gypsy Ballads'', 1928), a book of poems depicting life in his native Andalusia. His poetry incorporated traditional Andalusian motifs and avant-garde styles. After a sojourn in New York City from 1929 to 1930—documented posthumously in ''Poeta en Nueva York'' (''Poet in New York'', 1942)—he returned to Spain and wrote his best-known plays, ''Blood Wedding'' (1932), ''Yerma'' (1934), and ''The House of Bernarda Alba'' (1936). García Lorca was homosexual and suffered from Depression (mood), depression after the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Los Contemporáneos
''Los Contemporáneos'' (which means "The Contemporaries" in English) can refer to a Mexican modernist group, active in the late 1920s and early 1930s, as well as to the literary magazine which served as the group's mouthpiece and artistic vehicle from 1928 to 1931. In a way, they were opposed to stridentism. The group had its origins in friendships and literary collaborations that were formed among students attending Mexico City's elite National Preparatory School; that is where founding members José Gorostiza, Carlos Pellicer, Bernardo Ortiz de Montellano, Enrique González Rojo, and Jaime Torres Bodet met for the first time. This core group would all go on to attend together the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, specifically its Faculty of Jurisprudence, where they would come under the influence of professors Antonio Caso and Enrique González Martínez, both of whom were associated with the literary society Ateneo de México. Following this, a new generatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xavier Villarrutia
Xavier or Xabier may refer to: Place * Xavier, Spain People * Xavier (surname) * Xavier (given name) * Francis Xavier (1506–1552), Catholic saint ** St. Francis Xavier (other) * St. Xavier (other) * Xavier (footballer, born January 1980) (Anderson Conceição Xavier), Brazilian midfielder * Xavier (footballer, born March 1980) (José Xavier Costa), Brazilian left-back * Xavier (footballer, born 2000) (João Vitor Xavier de Almeida), Brazilian midfielder * Xavier (wrestler), American professional wrestler Arts and entertainment * '' Xavier: Renegade Angel'', an animated TV series * Xavier Institute, a fictional school in Marvel comics * Charles Xavier, Professor X, a fictional Marvel Comics character * "Xavier", a song by Casseurs Flowters from the 2015 soundtrack album ''Comment c'est loin'' * "Xavier", a song by Dead Can Dance from the 1987 album ''Within the Realm of a Dying Sun'' Other uses * Xavier University, in Cincinnati, U.S. * Xavier University of L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
El Tercer Fausto
''El tercer Fausto'' (originally published in French as ''Le troisième Faust, Tragédie breve''), is a play by Mexican writer Salvador Novo, initially published in 1934. It is considered one of the author's most important theatrical works. The plot, which references the classic German drama Faust (1808) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, follows the story of a man who decides to sell his soul to the devil to change his sex so he can seduce and win the love of another man. The play was originally written in French in 1932, and published two years later. At the time of its publication, Novo believed that a play about homosexuality could be controversial, but the piece actually earned international recognition. The Spanish version was not published in Mexico until 1956, when the Fondo de Cultura Económica included it as a part of the compilation . Characters *Alberto: The play's protagonist. He is in love with his friend Armando and, in an effort to win him over, he decides to sell h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mauricio González De La Garza
Mauricio González de la Garza (October 6, 1923–1995) was a Mexican journalist, writer and music composer. Life and career González de la Garza was born in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, Mexico. He earned bachelors and master's degrees in Philosophy from the Universidad Autónoma de México, as well a psychology doctorate. He wrote a nationally syndicated newspaper column, in Mexico, under the title "Mauricio Dice" (Mauricio Says). The column was a regular feature in the national daily ''Excélsior'', amongst others. During the presidency of José López Portillo, the publication of 'Última Llamada' (Last Call) forced González de la Garza to live in exile in Falfurrias, Texas. An accomplished pianist and composer in his own right, González de la Garza wrote several musical compositions, achieving widespread national success with "Polvo enamorado" ("Dust in Love"), interpreted by José José. Partial list of published works * ''Río de la misericordia'' (1965) * ''El Padre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catholic Church
The Catholic Church (), also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the List of Christian denominations by number of members, largest Christian church, with 1.27 to 1.41 billion baptized Catholics Catholic Church by country, worldwide as of 2025. It is among the world's oldest and largest international institutions and has played a prominent role in the history and development of Western civilization.Gerald O'Collins, O'Collins, p. v (preface). The church consists of 24 Catholic particular churches and liturgical rites#Churches, ''sui iuris'' (autonomous) churches, including the Latin Church and 23 Eastern Catholic Churches, which comprise almost 3,500 dioceses and Eparchy, eparchies List of Catholic dioceses (structured view), around the world, each overseen by one or more Bishops in the Catholic Church, bishops. The pope, who is the bishop of Rome, is the Papal supremacy, chief pastor of the church. The core beliefs of Catholicism are found in the Nicene Creed. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlo Cóccili
Carlo is a given name. It is an Italian form of Charles. It can refer to: *Carlo (name) *Monte Carlo *Carlingford, New South Wales, a suburb in north-west Sydney, New South Wales, Australia *A satirical song written by Dafydd Iwan about Prince Charles. *A former member of Dion and the Belmonts best known for his 1964 song, Ring A Ling. *Carlo (submachine gun), an improvised West Bank gun. * Carlo, a fictional character from Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp * It can be confused with Carlos * Carlo means “man” (from Germanic “karal”), “free man” (from Middle Low German “kerle”) and “warrior”, “army” (from Germanic “hari”). See also *Carl (name) *Carle (other) *Carlos (given name) Carlos is a masculine given name, and is the Maltese, Portuguese and Spanish variant of the English name ''Charles'', from the North Germanic '' Carl''. Royalty *Carlos I of Portugal (1863–1908), second to last King of Portugal *Charles V, ... {{disambig Italian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Estatua De Sal
''La estatua de sal'' (English: ''The Salt Statue'') is an autobiographical work by Mexican writer Salvador Novo, written around 1945–1946 and published posthumously in 1998. It is an account of personal memories, the author's sexual experiences, and gay life in Mexico City in the 1910s and 1920s. Mexican author and gay rights activist Carlos Monsiváis points out that there was no precedent for this work in Latin America and it is the first gay, autobiographical text in Mexico. History Novo's diary-style memoirs collected in contain for the first brief reference to in a 1953 entry where the writer makes some mention of an autobiographical work that had been interrupted six years before, which places the origin of the work around halfway through the 1940s. Later on, in an entry from June 26, 1954, he mentions these memoirs by title as part of some stored, on-hold documents housed in the garden study at his house in Coyoacán: The manuscript was delivered to the editor Guil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salvador Novo
Salvador Novo López (July 30, 1904 – January 13, 1974) was a Mexican writer, poet, playwright, translator, television presenter, entrepreneur, and the official chronicler of Mexico City. As a noted intellectual, he influenced popular perceptions of politics, media, the arts, and Mexican society in general. He was a member of the Mexican modernist writers' group ''Los Contemporáneos'', as well as of the Academia Mexicana de la Lengua. Life and career In spite of the machismo and conservative Roman Catholic Church, Catholicism prevalent in 20th-century Mexico, Novo was openly homosexual. As a result, he was referred to by Luis Spota as "Nalgador Sobo", a spoonerism that roughly translates to "butt groper". This elicited a riposte from Novo, who published an epigram mocking Spota's surname. The feud reportedly culminated in a fist fight between the two writers during a performance at the Palacio de Bellas Artes, after which they were both arrested. Nevertheless, Novo was accept ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manuel Payno
Manuel Payno (21 June 1810 – 5 November 1894) was a Mexican writer, journalist, politician and diplomat. His political ideology was moderate liberal. Payno's most notable literature work include ' ("The Bandits of Río Frio"), a costumbrista novel deemed an iconic piece of Mexican literature that has been an inspiration source for other writers and artists, and also from which several film adaptations have been made. Early years and start of political career His father was Manuel Payno Bustamante González, founder of Matamoros Customs, in northern Tamaulipas. Little is known about his mother, some sources cite her name as María Josefa Cruzado Pardo who belonged to prominent family from Puebla. However, some other sources cite her mother's last name as Flores. Payno entered the Matamoros Customs branch as meritorious, along with Guillermo Prieto. In 1840, he served as secretary to General Mariano Arista, and when he achieved a lieutenant colonel rank was chief of a section ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
